Tranquil mini Media Center PC

Tranquil PC (via mini-itx.com) have this cool looking Media Center PC available in the UK.  It's very small and so has some limitations but the design of it is great.  It's using a VIA mini-itx platform so it's not capable of playing HD WMV and only supports one tuner, but for a basic Media Center PC it looks pretty good.  The specs are:

• Motherboard/CPU: VIA M2 1.2GHz with MPEG2 acceleration, 10/100Mbps LAN, 6ch Audio, SPDIF out, USB2.0, Firewire
• Video: nVidia FX5200 128MB with composite and s-video out
• Hard drive: 160GB
• Optical drive: combo DVD/CD-RW

All in all a pretty impressive little system and right now mini-itx.com are running a competition to win one (I'm not sure, but it's probably UK only).

Comments

• Anonymous
  December 03, 2004
  Most interesting! I guess this means the M12000 supports MPEG-2 acceleration using VMR9 (Or the drivers do). The M10000, which I own, will not function correctly with MCE since it seems the MPEG-2 acceleration only functions with Overlays, thus DVD's and TV were out. Good post!
• Anonymous
  December 23, 2004
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